Emerging Technologies

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

The MoU is intended to enable collaboration to identify research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities for sustainable aviation technologies

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

Demonstrators built under Clean Sky 2, the project’s predecessor, were exhibited at the annual forum as a source of motivation.

The rebirth of faster-than-sound civil transport remains a pipedream to many, but it is making material headway in Southern California.

Rolls-Royce has begun bench tests of its first 320-kW electric motor demonstrator for potential regional aircraft applications.

The two front-runners in the nascent U.S. air taxi market have staked out sharply different paths in their manufacturing strategies.

Future battlefields with dispersed units and contested logistics are driving DARPA’s new portfolio of disruptive investments.

In a wide-ranging interview, Culp talks about the new company’s future and says he has no interest in taking his turnaround skills to Boeing.

The U.S. is marshaling unprecedented resources to shore up its chipmaking capabilities. Results thus far are mixed.

High-speed testbeds make progress; validating a digital twin; non-CO2 emissions road map; power-beamed UAV; SAF via bacteria.

Southwest Airlines has acquired SAFFiRE Renewables, a corn stover-to-ethanol technology company in which it already holds equity.

Neste’s production alone would cover the European SAF mandate for 2025, the Finland-based fuel producer says.

The company says its process could be cost competitive with fossil fuels and even carbon-negative.

The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act directed the secretary of defense to secure critical minerals from “reliable sources.”

Startup plans to support growth in onshore wind energy generation by transporting larger turbine blades.

While French innovators are making gradual progress in electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion, they are looking for critical funding.

China’s Sinopec and France's TotalEnergies will jointly establish a sustainable aviation fuel production site in China.

A year after scrapping the SpaceJet program, Japan is revisiting plans to develop its own airliner—this time powered by hydrogen.

The eVTOL industry seems to be in a Boeing 367-like moment.

Demonstrator test program targets development of safety culture and expertise in advance of Boom’s Overture airliner effort.

The company first wants to move projects from high risk to high reward.

Blended wing body developer JetZero has received an FAA airworthiness certificate for its 12.5% scaled demo, clearing the uncrewed twin-engine aircraft.

Certifying electric engines; Call for UK hydrogen funding; More eVTOLs for USAF; and the UK’s future flight road map.

Boom Supersonic has flown XB-1 demonstrator, the world’s first privately developed faster-than-sound civil aircraft.